In Croatia, Bjelinić families are Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Knin. In Plavno in Knin every seventieth inhabitant had the family name Bjelinić.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Bjelinić live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Plavno (<10).